On Our Own

  • On Our Own
    By Karon White Gibson, Joy Smith Catterson, Patricia Skalka

    A year from now they'd be working on a movie set at the elegant Ambassador East Hotel ; they'd be at the historic Palmer House discussing the takeover of a large - scale home nursing service with a group of oil - rich Texans ...

  • On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America
    By Melissa Ludtke

    One day she told me she wants to be the first black person to chair the U.S. Senate Finance Committee ; At this point she is planning to become a lawyer . Naomi is aware that , like many black female professionals , she's likely to earn ...

  • On Our Own: A Single Parent's Survival Guide
    By John D. DeFrain, Judy Fricke, Julie Elmen

    Divorced parents share practical advice on raising children alone, identify common problems, and discuss custody arrangements and negotiations

  • On Our Own: Americans in the Sixties
    By Douglas T. Miller

    The sixties, broadly conceived as encompassing the years from the midfifties through the early seventies, was an extraordinary period in American history, a time when an unprecedented number of people...

  • On Our Own: Patient-controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System
    By Judi Chamberlin

    On Our Own: Patient-controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System

  • On Our Own: Patient-controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System
    By Judi Chamberlin

    This is a book about psychiatry and alternatives to it, written from a patient's point of view. For too long, mental patients have been faceless, voiceless people. We have been...

  • On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America
    By Melissa Ludtke

    Unmarried motherhood: we debate it, discourage it, even legislate against it, yet it has continued to increase, in a steady rise that epitomizes the enormous changes of the last half-century....